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Turlough

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Turlough

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2.93 (44 Ratings by Goodreads)
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Published: 2 August, 2001
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While held hostage by fundamentalist Shi'ite militiamen in the suburbs of Beirut, Brian Keenan was visited and sustained by the presence of Turlough O'Carolan - the legendary blind Irish harper of the seventeenth century. This novel is thus a re-creation of an extraordinary historical story and a personal debt repaid. It is also, obliquely, a parallel life - another life imprisoned, shaped by the dark. Narrated largely by O'Carolan from his death-bed, and through the recollections of those closest to him, Turlough powerfully brings to life a lost Ireland of famine and disease, eviction and oppression. Stalking through the broken and dispossessed comes Turlough O'Carolan, the musical prodigy, blinded by smallpox and now an itinerant harper, lauded by the aristocracy and a hero to his people. His Rabelaisian desire for drink and women is counterpointed by his artistic struggle towards the great music and some kind of inner peace. Driven by demons and dreams, riven by contradictions, Turlough emerges as a great man, full of frailty: a blind man afraid of the dark. A panoramic picaresque, rich with the textures and smells of rural Ireland and peopled by a host of angels and devils, Turlough is a remarkable historical journey, and a huge imaginative feat.
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Type Book
ISBN13 9780099474319
ISBN10 009947431X
Number Of Pages 352
Item Weight 240 g
Product Dimensions 130 x 28 x 192 mm
Publisher / Reseller Vintage
Format paperback
Edition New edition
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Imaginative and lovingly executed...There is something profound going on in this novel... - Times Literary Supplement

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Author's Bio

Brian Keenan was born in Belfast in 1950. He has degrees in English and Anglo-Irish Literature, and has worked as a teacher in community development. After joining the staff at Beirut University, he was taken hostage in 1986. Following his release, four-and-a-half years later, he wrote the bestselling account of his imprisonment, An Evil Cradling, which won the Irish Times Irish Literature Prize for Non-Fiction, the Christopher Ewart-Biggs Memorial prize and the Time-Life P.E.N. Award in 1993. He also co-wrote, with John McCarthy, and account of their journey to Chile, Between Extremes (1999). Brian Keenan lives outside Dublin with his wife and two children.

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